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**ImapFidaarram** · 07-19-2012, 03:44 AM

Interesting article

Let’s walk through how this plays out when things go south. The government’s receiver began poring over the wreckage at ECentury Capital Partners, an SBIC in Chevy Chase, Md. that was partially backed by an affiliate of the Rothschild banking family, and found seven remaining portfolio companies. The receiver closed out four of these investments, including Bitwave Semiconductor, in which ECentury had plunked down $11.3 million. Bitwave tried to allow wireless carriers and *cellphone makers to deploy more ser*vices with additional functionality but was liquidated for nothing in 2010 after investment bankers couldn’t sell it.

As of March there were three remaining flops in the portfolio, including a $4.8 million investment in a semiconductor-chip maker for which the receiver determined “there is little that can be done.” In March ECentury owed the SBA $35.1 million of the $43.2 million in loans and guarantees the government had provided to the investment fund, court records show.

07-19-2012, 03:44 AM	#2
ImapFidaarram Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 537 Senior Member	Interesting article Let’s walk through how this plays out when things go south. The government’s receiver began poring over the wreckage at ECentury Capital Partners, an SBIC in Chevy Chase, Md. that was partially backed by an affiliate of the Rothschild banking family, and found seven remaining portfolio companies. The receiver closed out four of these investments, including Bitwave Semiconductor, in which ECentury had plunked down $11.3 million. Bitwave tried to allow wireless carriers and cellphone makers to deploy more services with additional functionality but was liquidated for nothing in 2010 after investment bankers couldn’t sell it. As of March there were three remaining flops in the portfolio, including a $4.8 million investment in a semiconductor-chip maker for which the receiver determined “there is little that can be done.” In March ECentury owed the SBA $35.1 million of the $43.2 million in loans and guarantees the government had provided to the investment fund, court records show.
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